Well… that was definitely a thing that I watched. Okay, joking aside, was ‘Descendants: The Rise of Red’ the worst thing I’ve ever watched? Not even close. The core premise of the story actually had the potential to be—dare I say it—great—but similar to some other scenes in the Descendants franchise, it’s planning and… Continue reading ‘Descendants: The Rise of Red’ Just Came Out. Let’s Review It! (Spoilers)
Category: TV/Film Reviews
‘Percy Jackson and the Olympians’ Needs to be Re-watched (A Disney+ Show Review, with Spoilers)
The issue isn’t that Grover explains things as they go. It’s that the only reason he’s explaining it is clearly the audience. In the original books you’ll find people explaining things to Percy constantly because Percy is the reader’s eyes and ears. Percy represents (like an Ambassador) the reader and so he learns along with us. It’s the most used way to drop information.
I Feel Sorry For the Writers of Disney’s ‘Wish’: A Review (With Spoilers)
Okay, finally, I’m here. I’m going to talk about the writing. I think this writing, rather than being horrible or the worst thing ever written by a human being, is a classic case of ‘too many cooks spoil the broth’. When I finished the film and the credits scrolled by I wasn’t surprised to learn that there had been four writers behind it. Because, unlike other people who read it as AI, I read it completely as a film written by many different writers—each with their own ideas, each with their own wants and needs and each getting carried away with their ideas even if they clashed with each other.
2-for-1 Review (Episode 3+4 Marvel’s Secret Invasion)
Unfortunately, that’s all I see when I watch Secret Invasion. I see a writer who can write scripts—who clearly can write scripts as the actor’s wouldn’t be nearly as good as they are otherwise—but, also a writer who didn’t plan properly; who is trying so hard to fit into the genre that they’re writing in (spy dramas/action) that they’re losing audience interest and sense in the process. I see a pantser (a writer who doesn’t plan before writing) who isn’t confident enough to be a pantser. Sometimes being a pantser works. Sometimes, with something that’s less known by others and is more connected to you—or is something you’ve spent a lot of time with in your head (essentially partly planned but not written down)—you can get away with pantsing. But this writer, at least for this series, isn’t succeeding without a plan… and everything is coming across wrong. Sometimes even in a way that I can’t even describe why it feels wrong.
The Literary Onion 